Jingsense Digital AM/FM Radio Alarm Clock Magnasonic EAAC201 Digital AM/FM Clock Radio Be warned that things like this can break. You can use automation apps like Tasker to do something like that. You can already send a Media Play keycode to AntennaPod. Sorry but this feature would cause so much pain that I do not want to add it to AntennaPod.Ī compromise would be just to define a custom intent-filter for the MediaButtonReceiver and then creating a fork of the alarm app, that just fires the matching intent on any alarm.
We are just talking about the alarm part, not even the fact that playing a podcast can sometimes be unreliable, too.
#Android alarm clock radio app 2016 android
This experience convinced me even more that we should focus on making a podcast app, not on trying to make a reliable alarm clock app (and ensure that it stays reliable while vendors do weird things and Android versions get updated). An alarm clock app does not mean anything if it is not 100% reliable. I am using LineageOS, which is pretty close to stock Android, not a system by one of the vendors who randomly kill apps. Even when the clock app is added as a battery-protected app, it sometimes just does not ring. I must say that I am really disappointed. I did not touch the actual "backend" alarm handling code. I took the open-source Android DeskClock app (basically just like and added some slight UI modifications. In the meantime, I have played around with making my own alarm clock app because I wanted to have an open-source app with a UI similar to Timely. This keeps the newly introduced maintenance work as low as possible while still providing a way to achieve the original goal of this issue. Then the alarm app is responsible for everything that might go wrong (file does not exist, crashes, etc). You can then use your normal (independently maintained) alarm app and choose AntennaPod as sound source. I have seen that apps can be selected as a ringtone provider. Leave the actual alarm handling to alarm apps and let AntennaPod just provide the audio files. If you miss an important meeting because the timer feature does not work, this is a whole different story. Normally, if your podcast does not play and you need a second try, this is not the end of the world.
#Android alarm clock radio app 2016 full
There are probably many more things that need to be kept in mind when integrating a full alarm app.Īdditionally, this needs to be tested (on every update, forever) a lot better than just the normal AntennaPod app. To not lose AntennaPod users because of one new feature, we would need to extend the alarm app with support for api 16+. The minSdkVersion of the alarm app is 23.
This would influence the whole data structure of AntennaPod, not just a single feature.
On a technical level, to provide a reliable alarm app, we would have to deal with things like direct boot. I am not able to maintain basically a second app. Maintaining AntennaPod is already a huge amount of work (I am more or less the only person doing bug fixes and in some weeks I am even the only one who does user support). This is like adding a second app that we need to take care of, in addition to AntennaPod.
A full-featured alarm app is going to be a lot of additional maintenance overhead. Hmm to be honest, I have a bad feeling about this.
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